Porn watching by teens on alarming level

Dhaka: Easy access to internet using mobiles has trapped a large section of the country’s teenagers into the world of pornography addiction, researchers have revealed.
A recent research claims that porn watching is not secret, rather a widespread practice among school goers in Dhaka city.
Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation conducted a survey on a total of 30 students of a Dhaka school. Researchers found that among them, 29 use mobiles and around 86% students are addicted to pornographic films.
Bangladesh Human Rights Foundation Executive Director Elina Khan said, ‘We found that 29 out of 30 students use mobiles and among them, 25 watch pornographic films even sitting in their classes.’
A research conducted by Manusher Jonno Foundation in 2013 revealed that 77% schoolboys and girls were addicted to pornography.
Doctors and child activists say that pornography makes immediate impacts on teenagers.
‘A few days ago a four-year-old girl came here with complaints of sexual violation. She was shown sexual contents in internet and abused accordingly by one of her cousins. The girl was so frightened that she did not want to disclose anything to doctors, even to her mother,’ said Bilkis Begum,Co-ordinator of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s One Stop Crisis Centre, a ward that especially takes care of the victims of sexual harassment.
UNICEF Child Protection Specialist Shabnaz Zaherin has run a research on 150 school and college students ageing between 16 to 19 years.
Shabnaz Zaherin said, ‘Almost 60% of them had experience of sexual activities, which is very alarming. Nothing but pornography is the reason... sensing physical pleasure, they try to explore it practically.’
Addiction to pornography is not different from addiction to drugs; and this addiction — at its climax — results in rape or indecent relationship, or sometimes endangers normal life leading.
Some schoolboys have admitted that they had friends, who once were regular in studies, but degraded due to addiction to porn sites.
Impact of pornography on mind has a close connection to the increase in number of rape incidents in society.
‘Global culture’s negative sides and the screening of professional men-women’s evil deeds are destroying the sense of honour and values among our youths, children and teenagers. We are pushing an uncontrolled mental desire in them,’ said National Mental Health Institute psychotherapy professor Mohit Kamal.
‘I know that we have a talented generation. If they can manage to do something to avert negative impacts of satellite culture in our country, like China, then we will be able to save our nation after ten years. Otherwise, from experience, I say, by the next 10 to 20 years our cultural life and religious norms will disappear.’ Mohit Kamal added.